It can cause problems and xerces will complain (depending on the
version). Note the scenerio you have outlined does not cause a problem
until you also include B and or C into A. It is better to avoid this
situation by designing so that all schema are included only once.
To do this you will need to create additional 'proxy' schema to do the
including for each document level schema you have.
If A needs components from B, C, D, and G
Then create an additional schema Aa that includes A, B,C,D, and G.
You can do the same thing for B, C and D.
The instance document would then need to point to Aa.
-rick
At 01:00 PM 1/29/03 +0000, PHDB _ wrote:
>Hi !
>
>I have a little question about multiple "include" in XML Schema.
>Is it a problem if I have the following including schema ?
>
> |-B.xsd<--G.xsd
> |
> |-C.xsd<--G.xsd
> |
>A.xsd<---D.xsd<--G.xsd
> |
> |-D.xsd<--G.xsd
>
>i.e. if G.xsd is included several times indirectly in A.xsd, does it cost
>time at parsing or is it well handled by Xerces ?
>NB : All Schemas are in the same namespace...
>
>Thks
>
>
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